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A Rotten Tomatoes-like Website for Books?

What a great idea: a website that aggregates book reviews, along the lines of RottenTomatoes.com.

In fact, iDreamBooks.com seems like such a good idea, I wondered why we haven’t seen something like it sooner.

The Huffington Post (“iDreamBooks Review Site: Rotten Tomatoes For Books?“) helpfully notes in their interview that the nature of movie reviews and book reviews are so very different, that creating a workable, accurate book review aggregation system makes for a tricky project indeed.

Here’s a quick rundown of the How and What —

“iDreamBooks, a site openly inspired by Rotten Tomatoes, has created a system that aims to aggregate and streamline book reviews, giving new releases from the big six publishers (Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, Random House, and Simon & Schuster) a percentage rating. Like its popular film equivalent, the iDreamBooks team decides whether a certain review is positive or negative using both automated and manual techniques, and compiles the ratings to determine a book’s critical merit.”